Bjørn Roald wrote:
On 10/19/2010 06:56 PM, Christian Holmquist wrote: method name POSIX path XP path -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- temp_path /tmp c:\TEMP user_(home|profile)_path /home/bjorn c:\Documents and Settings\bjorn user_docs_path /home/bjorn c:\Documents and Settings\bjorn\My Documents
I disagree with your mappings. I think leaving undefined what has no standard definition is superior. +1 The fact that I see it differently but understand some of the arguments being made here suggests to me that it should be left up to
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Stewart, Robert <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote: the application developers and not guess at it in Boost. For what it's worth I would see a correspondence something like: $TMPDIR - %TEMP% $HOME - %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% $HOME/Documents - %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\My Documents And even so I'm very aware that even I don't even have a $HOME/Documents on some of the machines I use.